Summary
In this chapter, we have completed the Continuous Delivery pipeline, which finally releases the application. The following are the key takeaways from the chapter:
- For the purpose of Continuous Delivery, two environments are indispensable: staging and production.
- Nonfunctional tests are an essential part of the Continuous Delivery process and should always be considered as pipeline stages.
- Nonfunctional tests that don't fit the Continuous Delivery process should be considered as periodic tasks in order to monitor the overall performance trends.
- Applications should always be versioned; however, the versioning strategy depends on the type of the application.
- The minimal Continuous Delivery pipeline can be implemented as a sequence of scripts that ends with two stages: release and smoke test.
- The smoke test should always be added as the last stage of the Continuous Delivery pipeline in order to check whether the release was successful.
In the next chapter, we will have a look at the Docker...
